Authorities initially thought Wanda was dead. “I wouldn’t have wagered a nickel for her life that morning,” Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger said Friday, according to WCHS. “She was in that bad of shape. Quite honestly, she was unconscious, circling the drain medically. Massive, massive amounts of head trauma, consistent with some sort of machete or hatchet-type injury.” The case was immediately a mystery. “I had my windows open in my home, and we never heard one thing,” Eileen told WTAP at the time. Mellinger said Friday they originally had little in the way of evidence. They still did not...